in reply to Re: use strict and warnings for newbes
in thread use strict and warnings for newbes
Good proposal.
Having 'obstacle course' to help newbies reach for FAQ before posting is returning again. There was discussion about it at Use strict warnings and diagnostics or die. And sure enough, I (pmas) proposed the 'obstacle course' ;-)
Having 'obstacle course' to help newbies reach for FAQ before posting is returning again. There was discussion about it at Use strict warnings and diagnostics or die. And sure enough, I (pmas) proposed the 'obstacle course' ;-)
I still believe 'obstacle course' will help our Monastery in multiple ways:
- Guide newbies through FAQ, and resources with answer already available, but maybe not too easy (for newbies) to find.
- By providing links to FAQ, we lower pressure on newbies (I know I hate to ask stupid questions).
- If newbie is not afraid that question being asked is stupid and was answered hundreds of times, maybe s/he will be less reluctant to register - which is Good Thing.
- Compared with other on-line communities, PerlMonks has one very special feature - Experience Points, which allows us to assume something about perl skills of the person asking question. Why not to use this info for PerlMonks advantage? To be even more useful tool for all participants? Why not to build on our comparative advantage?
- Because 'obstacle course' will guide newbie through FAQ, quality of posts will increase, less noise. I do not know about you, but I do not enjoy answering simple trivial questions by mentioning links where topic was kicked to death. My time is limited and I enjoy reading about tricky questions (and solutions). Please understand me, I was nebie recently (and I am not an expert yet - far from that), but still... I believe that self-help is the way.
Here is what I found (and liked) on NewsGroups:
I know we in PM <bold>do care</bold> about answering the question (so we are tempted to be helpdesk), but we are not paid to do it, right?"Get real! This is a discussion group, not a helpdesk. You post something, we discuss its implications. If the discussion happens to answer a question you've asked, that's incidental." -- nobull in comp.lang.perl.misc - Many of you can add more reasons here...
pmas
To make errors is human. But to make million errors per second, you need a computer.
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Re: (pmas) Re2: use strict and warnings for newbies
by dmmiller2k (Chaplain) on Aug 30, 2001 at 18:09 UTC | |
by pmas (Hermit) on Aug 31, 2001 at 18:22 UTC |
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